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This Wednesday will mark the two-week anniversary of an assault against freedom of speech. On Feb. 28, the UC-Berkeley Daily Californian ran an advertisement titled "Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Slavery is a Bad Idea--and Racist Too." The ad, sent to more than 30 college newspapers, was written by David Horowitz, a former Black Panther turned conservative activist. Its publication sparked outrage at Berkeley and elsewhere. Angry student protesters demanded an apology and the Daily Californian capitulated, running a front-page mea culpa...
Student protesters have every right to dispute the claims of Horowitz's advertisement, and newspapers have the right to reject the ad's publication if they think it is factually or morally incorrect. They may well be right; certainly there are arguments to make against Horowitz's position...
...protesters didn't make these arguments. Instead, they mobbed the newspaper's offices and branded the Horowitz ad as racist without saying why. The Daily Californian caved at the first hint of protest, running an editor's note that read, in part, "We realize that the ad allowed the Daily Cal to become an inadvertent vehicle for bigotry...
...more frequently on TV. Latin stars like Ricky Martin, Jennifer Lopez and Carlos Santana are releasing numerous ballroom songs that appeal to young audiences. Jim Anzelmo, an 18-year-old senior at Madison's Edgewood High who takes ballroom as a gym elective, was strongly influenced by a 1998 ad for the Gap featuring handsome young people doing the lindy hop. He remembers thinking, "It would be great to learn to dance like that...
...FROM AD TO WORSE Things are tough all over in cyberspace, but websites that rely on advertising for their dollars, such as news and magazine sites, have been hit especially hard. Why? Because no one--stop us if we're wrong here--cares about those annoying, ubiquitous banner ads. The solution? Bigger ads! A coalition of websites, including AOL and Yahoo, has agreed on standards for larger, harder-to-ignore ads that will supplement the much maligned banner ad. For a glimpse of things to come, check out the tech-info site News.com which is already running the new ads...